Orlando: Echo faith’s resounding note …

A friend emailed me today (thanks Debbie) to say she was planning to use one of my hymns on Sunday to help the congregation where she’s preaching reflect on the attacks on the LGBT nightclub in Orlando.

It was originally written 15 years ago, the day after 9/11, and seems to have resonated with people of faith for far too many killings since.

The crumbling mountains were the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre but also anything we assume will be a permanence in our lives and too easily gets taken away by violence.

For those who use the Methodist hymnbook Singing the Faith it is number 722, where it is set to the tune Vox Dilecti. If you are a musician, it will work with a number of DCM (8686D) tunes.